steven moore, let me welcome you back, thank you for joining me today. senior economic writer at the wall street journal. taxpayers, they bail out aig, now aig may be suing the taxpayers, ie you and me. what is the deal? >> sounds like one of those no good deal goes unpunished. the federal government stepped in with $180 billion bailout that was in late 2008 during the height of the financial crisis. and now it is actually a healthy company again. it has been nursed back to profitability. and, you know, look, the alternative to this bailout would have been almost certainly federal bankruptcy court. and the issue here, just to give both sides of the story, is that the directors and some of the shareholders are saying we might have come out better if we had gone in the federal bankruptcy court than the deal we got in terms of the return on the stock that we got with this bail. because what happened is the federal government became a 70% shareholder -- majority share holder in the company. hank greenberg, the former chairman of the company is one of the peo